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hypophosphites

hypophosphites is the plural of hypophosphite.

Meaning of hypophosphite

Noun

hypophosphite (plural hypophosphites)

  1. Any salt of hypophosphorous acid.
    • The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696

Questions about hypophosphites

What is hypophosphites the plural of?
Hypophosphites is the plural of hypophosphite.

Words near hypophosphites in the dictionary

  1. hypophosphatemias
  2. hypophosphatemic
  3. hypophosphates
  4. hypophosphaturia
  5. hypophosphite
  6. hypophosphites
  7. hypophosphoric
  8. hypophosphoric acid
  9. hypophosphorous
  10. hypophosphorous acid
  11. hypophosphorous acids

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